If your concern lies in oversized, heavy and uncomfortable breasts, you may be considering a breast reduction. A breast uplift is performed as part of almost every breast reduction. Some women experienced severe physical discomfort or psychological distress from hypertrophic and/or misshapen breasts. Hypertrophic breasts, where a patient has excessive breast tissue, can cause life-affecting physical symptoms like back pain, neck pain, headaches, and skin rashes.
I am currently two week post breast reduction surgery …. I can honestly say the entire experience has exceeded all of my expectations! From the moment I arrived, I felt completely at ease and incredibly well looked after. The support team … and everyone else were equally outstanding. Their kindness and genuine care made me feel so safe and supported throughout my stay. The food was, quite simply, out of this world far beyond anything I anticipated, and a real highlight during recovery.
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Even though I’m still early in the healing process, I am already absolutely thrilled with the results. The change has already made me incredibly emotional and deeply thankful! After all these years, I’ve finally done it. It’s hard to put into words what that means to me. It was such a positive and uplifting experience that I genuinely wish I could do it all over again. Thank you to everyone at Wood MediSpa for making this such a special and transformative journey.
Whilst the primary aim of a breast reduction is to reduce the volume of breast tissue, the aesthetic outcome is still highly important. The improvement of breast aesthetics, physical comfort, and self-confidence can make a dramatic difference to a your wellbeing allowing you to live more freely and rediscover your confidence.
Live freely and with confidence
Breast hypertrophy is condition characterised by the rapid, excessive, and disproportionate growth of breast tissue relative to a person’s body frame. Often occurring in one or both breasts, it frequently causes severe physical discomfort, such as neck, shoulder, and back pain, shoulder grooving from bra straps, along with irritation under the breast. Often, there will be a low-lying position of the breasts with droop or sag, as well as a nipple areolar enlargement.
Whereas diet and exercise can have some impact on breast size, for most patients a breast reduction is the most effective means of achieving their goals. Reducing the breast size also leads to better posture, the ability to more easily fit into clothing and swimsuits, and the confidence gained from a more harmonious body shape.
Breast Reduction at Wood MediSpa near Exeter
Your surgeon will listen to your concerns and desired goal and then advise on the best approach to achieve the outcome you desire.
Our breast reduction ladies often tell us of the discomfort that hypertrophic breasts cause them, and how restrictive this condition is both in terms of their day to day life but also in preventing them from fully pursuing their health and fitness goals.
→ Circumvertical Breast Reduction
A “Lollipop” reduction mammoplasty, or short scar breast reduction, with an incision around areola and a vertical line
→ Wise-Pattern Reduction
The more classical “Inverted-T” breast reduction, with an incision around the areola, a vertical line to the inframammary crease, and a horizontal line
→ Liposuction-Assisted Breast Reduction
A breast reduction performed with liposuction, solely, or in conjunction with the above
A breast lift, also known as mastopexy, removes excess skin and tightens surrounding tissue to reshape and restore the breast.
With Uplift
A breast lift is almost always performed along with a breast reduction. More information on breast uplift can be found on our breast mastopexy page.
More information regarding breast reduction surgery is available at the British Associationof Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.
Preservation Technique
At Wood MediSpa, our surgeons use advanced surgical approaches designed to reduce breast volume, lift sagging tissue, and reshape the breast while minimising trauma to the surrounding nerves, blood vessels, and ligaments.
Unlike traditional techniques that may cut more extensively, this preservation technique is respectful of the tissues. These methods focus on maintaining the structural integrity of the breast to promote faster recovery, better sensation, and a more natural, long-lasting aesthetic result. This involves the most minimal dissection of the breast gland so that as many arteries veins nerves and lymphatic vessels and milk ducts are left attached as possible.
We believe this provides a lower risk approach with a faster recovery.
Your Incisions
If you’re considering undergoing reduction mammoplasty, one of your biggest concerns might be scarring.
Our surgeons take great care in the placement of their incisions and quality of wound closures to achieve the most discreet scar possible for your anatomy. Breast lift incision placement will vary depending upon the degree of deflation, the breast and nipple position, the elasticity of the skin, and whether or not volume will be restored concomitantly with breast implants.
As you heal, the scars gradually fade to mostly unnoticeable fine silvery lines.
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Your Wood MediSpa Experience
From your first contact with us, and throughout the entirety of your recovery and follow-up, you will experience the thoroughness, attention to detail, and warmth with which our fantastic team welcome and care for you. The first visit is an opportunity for your surgeon to get to understand your desires, to examine and evaluate physical requirements, to thoroughly inform you about the procedure or alternative treatments that will suit you best, to answer any questions you may have, and to introduce you to our incredibly warm, professional, caring and compassionate staff.